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On Sat, 2018-02-03 at 20:41 -0500, Jon DeVree wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 01:03:59 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Control: severity -1 wishlist
> > Control: tag -1 wontfix
> >
> > On Sat, 2018-02-03 at 14:32 -0500, Jon wrote:
> > > Package: src:linux
> > > Version: 4.14.7-1
> > > Severity: normal
> > >
> > > Please enable CONFIG_X86_MCELOG_LEGACY so that /dev/mcelog exists again.
> > >
> > > It seems this functionality was seperated from CONFIG_X86_MCE in 4.12
> > > and is not enabled by default. I don't see it explicitly set one way or
> > > another in the debian kernel source repo and no mention of it in the
> > > changelog, so I assume that not enabling it is unintentional
> >
> > This was unintentional, but I think it's correct. The Kconfig says to
> > use rasdaemon which is already packaged and in stable.
> >
> > Ben.
> >
>
> rasdaemon has a hard dependency on systemd, it isn't installable on
> machines still running sysvinit.
>
> Not sure if thats a hard dep or if it only just means rasdaemon is
> missing a sysvinit script.
From a quick look at the code, I think it just lacks a sysvinit script.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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